Brock v. E. McIlhenny' Son’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * A court cannot perform the function of selecting the shape of a tract of land of a given area in order that it may pass by a deed of the stated number of acres in a certain locality.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 308 So. 2d 502 - Gram Realty Co., Inc. v. Northern Homes, Inc. · 232 So. 2d 83 - White v. Phillips Petroleum Company

2. “"50 acres of land in the northeast corner of the following property: 2165.56 acres of land, being lots 3 and 4 of section 25, east half of southeast quarter (E. ½ of S.E. ¼) section 35, lots 1 and 2 and west half of west half (W. ½ of W. ½) section 36, in T. 7 S., R. 3 E., west half of section 36, in T. 7 S., R. 3 E., west half of section 25, all of section 26, east half of section 27, east half of west half (E. ½ of W. ½) section 27; southwest quarter of northwest quarter (S.W. ¼ of N.W. ¼) and west half of southwest quarter (W. ½ of S.W. ¼) section 27, lots one, two, three and four, section 25, in T. 8 S., R. 3 E."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 308 So. 2d 502 - Gram Realty Co., Inc. v. Northern Homes, Inc.

3. “"* * * Forty acres in the northeast corner of a regular section might be understood to mean the N.E. ¼ of the N. E. ¼, according to official survey, but 50 acres in the northeast corner of a regular section might as well mean a right angle triangle measuring 31.62 chains on its north and east boundary line as a square measuring 22.36 chains on each side."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 232 So. 2d 83 - White v. Phillips Petroleum Company